Hello everyone,
I've made a huge mistake.
So first of all, I have no backups. I neglected making them and I have definitely learned my lesson. Just to get it out of the way.
I was trying to install KDE Neon on my drive, which has three partitions. My Kubuntu install, Windows, and an empty one. I wanted to install KDE Neon as I the audio broke on Kubuntu and I couldn't get it to work, so I decided to switch to KDE Neon. I clicked on the option to overwrite my Kubuntu installation, and it started overwriting the partition, when I thought- "wait. I never told it to preserve my /home folder" So I cancelled the installation. It gave me a message akin to "are you sure you want to quit? all changes will be lost". So I quit and installed KDE Neon on my empty partition in order to save my data on another drive so I could migrate it. When I rebooted, I found I was unable to boot into Kubuntu, and when I booted into Neon, I was unable to see any files on the Kubuntu partition except for the lost and found directory. I am now booted from a Live Ubuntu USB and Gparted reports that my Kubuntu drive, which had over 220 GB of data, only has 8 GB of data.
I tried GParted rescue, told it the start and end sectors, and it returned nothing.
I don't have a lot of data that I want to recover. It's mostly LibreOffice documents that I'd like to get back, but they're important to me. Is there anything I can do myself? I assume that since it's partitioned off it hasn't been physically overwritten by anything else, since I stopped the installation as soon as it began, but I have no idea how to recover my data. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.
I've made a huge mistake.
So first of all, I have no backups. I neglected making them and I have definitely learned my lesson. Just to get it out of the way.
I was trying to install KDE Neon on my drive, which has three partitions. My Kubuntu install, Windows, and an empty one. I wanted to install KDE Neon as I the audio broke on Kubuntu and I couldn't get it to work, so I decided to switch to KDE Neon. I clicked on the option to overwrite my Kubuntu installation, and it started overwriting the partition, when I thought- "wait. I never told it to preserve my /home folder" So I cancelled the installation. It gave me a message akin to "are you sure you want to quit? all changes will be lost". So I quit and installed KDE Neon on my empty partition in order to save my data on another drive so I could migrate it. When I rebooted, I found I was unable to boot into Kubuntu, and when I booted into Neon, I was unable to see any files on the Kubuntu partition except for the lost and found directory. I am now booted from a Live Ubuntu USB and Gparted reports that my Kubuntu drive, which had over 220 GB of data, only has 8 GB of data.
I tried GParted rescue, told it the start and end sectors, and it returned nothing.
I don't have a lot of data that I want to recover. It's mostly LibreOffice documents that I'd like to get back, but they're important to me. Is there anything I can do myself? I assume that since it's partitioned off it hasn't been physically overwritten by anything else, since I stopped the installation as soon as it began, but I have no idea how to recover my data. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.